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 - `pnpm lint` - run ESLint on the front end codebase, to check for linting errors
 - `pnpm build` - creates a production-optimised build of the Next.js app in the `.next` directory
 
+# Attribution
+Thank you to these fantastic projects, and their respective communities, without which, this application would be much worse!
+- Hangfire (for background and scheduled tasks): https://www.hangfire.io
+- ASP.NET Core (as the basis of our web API): https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore
+- ServiceStack.OrmLite (as our lightweight .NET ORM): https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/tree/main/ServiceStack.OrmLite
+- PostgreSQL (as our database): https://www.postgresql.org
+- TimescaleDB (as our time-series database): https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
+- Mantine (as our UI/component library): https://mantine.dev
+- OpenAPI Generator (for automatic generation of front end API interfaces): https://openapi-generator.tech
+- TanStack Query (as our front end query management library): https://tanstack.com/query/latest
+- DefinitelyTyped (for their fantastic TypeScript type definitions): https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+- Axios (as our front end HTTP client): https://axios-http.com
+- Day.js (as our time/date library for the front end): https://day.js.org
+- Leaflet (as our interactive map): https://leafletjs.com
+- Next.js (as the basis of our SSR front end): https://nextjs.org
+- React.js (as our JS framework): https://react.dev
+- React Icons (for our icons!): https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons
+- React Leaflet (as a minimal React wrapper for Leaflet): https://react-leaflet.js.org
+- Recharts (for charts in Mantine): https://recharts.org
+- Sharp (for image processing): https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com
+- ESLint (for code linting): https://eslint.org
+- eslint-plugin-react (for their React ESLint rules): https://github.com/jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-react
+- globals (for Node.js global variables): https://github.com/sindresorhus/globals
+- Node.js (as our JS runtime): https://nodejs.org
+- PostCSS (for CSS transformation in Mantine): https://postcss.org
+- TypeScript ESLint (for TS linting rules): https://typescript-eslint.io
+- TypeScript (as our front end language): https://www.typescriptlang.org
+- PNPM (as our front end package manager): https://pnpm.io
+- .NET (as the basis of our back end): https://github.com/dotnet
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 # TODO (in rough order of priority)
 - Email notifications (WIP)
 - Generalise pagination across back end code (pass in simple Pagination objects to methods, rather than the large signature we have currently)